[nanawhiskers]

Hi, My perscription was changer from oxycodone 5/325 to propoxy 100-650 which is stronger and will be better for my pain?

[lefty]

The Propoxyphene 100 mg / Acetaminophen 650 mg combination is probably slightly stronger if you are only taking one tablet of each.

[painkiller]

Oxycodone is far stronger than Propoxy 100-650. Oxycodone is the active ingredient in Percocet and in Oxycontin. It breaks down like this Darvocet (propoxy/APAP), Vicodin (hydrocodone/APAP), and Percocet (oxycododne/APAP) from weakest to strongest. If you have any other questions I'd be more than happy to answer.

-painkiller

[mpvt]

propoxyphene(sp) is a very poor pain killer,they stopped ordering it for pain about 15 years ago (I'm in Ontario,Canada).....Dave

[noobee]

Oxycodone is by far more potent than Propoxyphene - potency meaning pain killing power per milligram.

But is Oxycodone/APAP 5/325mg stronger than Propoxyphene/APAP 100/650mg?
It depends which equianalgesic chart you look at.

Ask your doctor why he made the change and if you are not happy and not getting the pain relief you need, let him know.

[lydiap009]

i was wondering about that as well. would there be withdrawls from the percocet when you start the darvocet?

[Marine]

The may be some slight withdrawls, but even though you are switching from a stronger painkiller to a weaker one, the fact is is that your body is still getting they pain reliever it needs even though it may be a litter weaker.

I recently quit a 6 month lortab (7.5\500) addiction cold turkey. Its been 2 weeks now and I feel so much better, but that 1st week was the absoluletly worst time of my life! Be carefull and done abuse like I did.

Now, all I take is ibprofen, even though I still have a lsciatic nerve damageegitimate reason to take the stronger pain killers (I have severe damage from the military). However, I'm going to try surgery to fix it versus taking a drug. In the end, it did not cure anything and made me into a person I did not like.